What about Alden-Hebron High School?

The following comment from “NITPG Guy” stimulated this post:

Alden Hebron School District 19 -17.86%

Yeah, I know our enrollment is down by almost 20%…..

But hey, let’s spend $20 million for a new High School that will be half empty!

McHenry County Board members Chuck Wheeler and John Reinert suggested that the McHenry High School District 158 could save tax;payers monry by signing an intergovernmental ageement to send surplus students to Crystal Lake High School District 155’s Prairie Ridge High School.

That won’t happen because voters decided to pass a multi-million bond issue to build additionalspace.

In the Alden-Hebron School District, however, voters rejected a $20 million bond issue to build a new high school.

So, I wonder if the Alden-Hebron School Board has considered sending students to Woodstock North High School, Richmond-Burton High School and/or Harvard High School.

Surely that would be a less expensive approach to whatever the problem is than building a new high school.


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What about Alden-Hebron High School? — 1 Comment

  1. Sending surplus students or all students of a certain category to another district is unlikely to happen for a variety of reasons.

    Individual students are sometimes sent to another district due to a special need.

    Best place to start with Alden Hebron School District 19 is to get the school board to livestream board meetings on Youtube, or at the very least put videotaped board meetings on YouTube.

    And get the board to post a board agenda packet in pdf format on the school board’s website prior to school board meetings, and then indefinetely archive them on the same website.

    A board agenda packet contains all the documents to be discussed at the board meeting.

    Then one can better learn what’s being done and said at the board level.

    That is school board transparency 101.

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